[SNIPPET] Replace Characters, Words or Patterns

[rednoah]

Note that most software expects the file name and the database entry to match exactly. If you modify the movie name / series name with custom character replacements, then FileBot and any other 3rd party software (e.g. Plex, Kodi, Emby, Jellyfin, etc) may have trouble making sense of the file name in the future.



e.g. Replace custom text:

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{ n.replace('apple':'orange') }

e.g. Strip : and - and replace & with and:

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{ n.replace(':':'', '-':'', '&':'and') }

e.g. Replace German Umlauts:

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{ n.replace(ä:'ae', ö:'oe', ü:'ue') }

e.g. Read replacement map from an external CSV or TSV file:

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{ n.replace(csv('/path/to/replace.csv')) }

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$ cat ~/replace.csv
ä	ae
ö	oe
ü	ue

e.g. Remove all patterns in (...) round brackets:

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{ fn.removeAll(/\(.+?\)/) }

e.g. Remove all patterns in [...] square brackets:

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{ fn.removeAll(/\[.+?\]/) }

See Strip brackets [...] from the file path for details.